Filming the foreign exchange
The European Union's Erasmus student exchange programme might seem an unlikely focus for a film, but French director Cedric Klapisch has managed to get it on the big screen in his latest feature, Pot...
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Moore like Marge
An admin assistant at Loughborough University this week starred as the UK equivalent of Marge Simpson. Tania Moore and her family were chosen from more than 1,000 hopefuls to form the basis for a...
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Chair swap at 'top' club
The Coalition of Modern Universities is to hold its next meeting at the Oxford and Cambridge Club - clearly keen to trample on the ground of "top" universities. The meeting will see Michael Driscoll...
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Education's a drag
Australia has acquired something of a reputation for drag queens, thanks to the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Sydney's annual Mardi Gras parade. Now Melbourne University is running a course...
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Scalps of the rich and clever
Julia Margaret Cameron - From Life
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Old age and new identities
Age, Narrative and Migration
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Cockney captive turns the tables
In Search of the Red Slave
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Easy links to significant others
Shamanism
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'Anthropological arse' in saddle
The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about a penniless orphan: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." The winner...
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Give your computer's IQ a boost
Journal of Machine Learning Research
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Take a bandwagon, genome and some small animalsI
Molecular Imaging
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Power tool sex mishaps make you see double
Annals of Improbable Research
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Laurie Taylor Column
"No stars for RAE funding change", THES , May 9. Crikey. Have you seen this letter in The THES from half the RAE panel chairs? Strong stuff. They're actually threatening to have nothing to do with...
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Alan Ryan
The professionalism of US admissions offices is a myth - what they do well is balance the demands of their many constituencies The spring mating rituals have just about come to an end, and students...